HSK 6 · Verbs

拜托 bàituō “to ask a favour” in Chinese

Traditional 拜託

What 拜托 means

  1. to ask a favour
  2. please (could you)
  3. to request sb to do sth
  4. please!

How to say 拜托

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale拜bài4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale托tuō1st tone, high and level

拜托 in a sentence

  1. 拜托了！

    Bàituō le!

    Please – I’m counting on you!

    Sentence #13174838 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 拜托你开门让我进来吧。

    Bàituō nǐ kāimén ràng wǒ jìnlái ba.

    Open the door and let me in, please.

    Sentence #418561 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 拜托，谁来接一下电话啊！

    Bàituō, shéi lái jiē yíxià diànhuà a!

    Come on, someone answer the phone!

    Sentence #13869022 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 拜托 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 拜 (bài) with each of its parts in a different colour
拜bàito bow to; to pay one’s respects
  • 手hand · shǒu
  • 手hand · shǒu
The character 托 (tuō) with each of its parts in a different colour
托tuōto hold up in one’s hand
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 乇to depend on · zhé

How to write 拜托

拜 9 strokes · 托 6 strokes

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拜托 (bàituō) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 拜托 (bàituō). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 拜托

Words with 拜

礼拜天Lǐbàitiān · Sunday拜访bàifǎng · to pay a visit崇拜chóngbài · to worship拜年bàinián · to give New Year greetings

Words with 托

摩托车mótuōchē · motorbike衬托chèntuō · to set off依托yītuō · to rely on寄托jìtuō · to place (hopes) on委托wěituō · to entrust托运tuōyùn · to check in (luggage)

More words: Thinking & Talking

转告zhuǎngào · to pass on咨询zīxún · to consult尊敬zūnjìng · to respect暗示ànshì · to hint保密bǎomì · to keep something secret鞭策biāncè · to spur on贬低biǎndī · to belittle辩解biànjiě · to justify

FAQs

拜托 (bàituō) means “to ask a favour” or “please (could you)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàituō: bài with a 4th tone, then tuō with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 拜托 is written 拜託. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baituo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 拜托 from the suggestions. Typing baituo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
拜托 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.